An unknown mathematical manuscript by Blaise Pascal

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• 作者：Dominique Descotes
• 关键词：Pascal ; Pensé ; es ; Manuscript ; Indivisibles
• 刊名：Historia Mathematica
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：August 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：37
• 期：3
• 页码：503-534
• 全文大小：2750 K

文摘

This article deals with an unknown mathematical manuscript to be found in the Recueil Original of the manuscript of the Pensées. I give a technical description of the original manuscript, followed by a mathematical analysis of the proposition proved by Pascal. The interest of this study lies in the fact that this theorem is the only handwritten draft remaining in Pascal’s mathematical works.